THE NARRATIVE METHOD

The Pavilion possess a function-sign: the metal surface is developed as collage made of different landscape elements from the Banat Region. The surface of the object is a story, a narration representative for the regional identity.
The central iconic image is the baroque churche of Banat. This type of provincial Baroque, with a single tower, is typical for 18-19 century landscape of Banat, and accompanied systematization - (re)construction area by the Habsburg authorities. Also is the most common type of church, in both the Catholic environment, as well as in the Orthodox one. (If in the Catholic environment, the adoption of this model is not surprising, for the Orthodox - being either Serbians or Romanians, the adopted Viennese model is a distinctiv and a characteristic feature.)

The rest of the "narration" is constituted starting from a traditional village from the Banat plain, picturing a street in the village of Niţchidorf (in German: Nitzkydorf, in Hungarian: Niczkyfalva), the native village of Herta Muller.

The church, as well as the rest of the narrative elements are representeted through the technique of cutting and perforating the surface of the metal panels; they picture things that are easily recognized and identified. These signs define an identity and have a representative value. (What is provincial and peripheral is exhibited in the center.)

The text and its reading are ambiguous. The object is open to its north side and is perceived as an object, as a box. Physical properties of the object and its semantical properties are overlapping and mutually excluding eachother, depending on angle, the light and the scale of the perception. By changing the angle of perception, the object is closing and in the meantime is opening, revealing the church (as an icon-image). And changing the angle from the southwest to the nord sidereverses the opperation.